Show NW SAN FRANCISCO PLANS FOB MAKING CITY MOST BEAUTIFUL IN AMERICA In Rebuilding a Scheme of Fine Pub lic Buildings and System of Parks and Boulevards Is to De Followed A new and more beautiful San Iranclsco to rise out of the ashes of the old Long before the earthquake earth-quake and fire came to devastate the queen city of the Pacific coast there had been talk ot remodeling the California metropolis but the one great obstacle to tho carrying out of tho elaborate plans which were to make tho place tho most beautiful city In America was the great num ber of line buildings that were In the way and which would have to be leveled lev-eled And while the projectors of the city morobeautlful were urging and others were hesitating mother earth aroused herself and shook the city I up to such an extent that there Is i nothing now In the ny of carrying out the most elaborate scheme which may bo prepared but money and tho adoption of a definite plan Of tho former there Is abundant evidence that the millions which will be available avail-able when needed and It Is certain that before many weeks plans for the rebuilding of the city will be ready This rebuilding scheme it Is declared de-clared by Its promoters will make of I m l THC IHOIOSKD STADIUM AT TWIN PEAKS the city the American Paris In the arrangement of Its streets nnd the American Naples In tho beauty of Its bay and skies The man most prominently identified identi-fied with the movement for the benutl fylng of San Francisco Is Daniel Hudson Hud-son Burnham who designed tho court of honor at the Chicago worlds fair and who has built many magnificent buildings at Chicago and elsewhere Tho plans for the Ideal San Francisco aro chiefly his and how far his Ideas of a metropolis with broad boulevards and great parkways and wooded heights a city of sunken gardens or airy bridges of stately gardens and broad expanses are to be realized remains re-mains to bo seen Dut it Is more than likely that In the main his scheme will be carried out It provides first for a civic center where all the principal city buildings arc to be located and also tho new union railroad station About this Is to bo a broad circular boulevard a perimeter of distribution and beyond this Is a series of broader boulevards or parkways connecting the hills which are to be converted Into parks themselves About this Is to be the encircling boulevard following tho shore lino of tho peninsula The schema Includes In-cludes also the extension of tho avenue ave-nue leading to the Golden Gate park known as the Panhandle the building build-ing of a Greek amphitheater on the Twin Peaks with a statue of San Francisco greeting the countries of the orient The plan also provides for a now parade ground at the Presidio Pre-sidio and the building of numerous parks and playgrounds throughout the city Mr Hiirnhams plan for the New San Francisco leaves Chinatown out of tho reckoning Twin Peaks and the property lying arbund them would be acquired for park purposes by the city The idea Is to weave park and residence Into Interesting and economic relations and also to preserve from the encroachments en-croachments of building the hill bordered bor-dered valley running fo Lake Merced so that the vista from tho parks to the ocean shall bo unbroken It Is planned to preserve tho beautiful canyon can-yon or glen to the south of Twin Peaks and also to maintain as far as possible the wooded background formed by tho hills looking south from Golden Gate park This park area of the Twin Peaks which Includes In-cludes the hills which surround the San Miguel valley and Is terminated by Lake Merced Is a link in the chain of parks girdling the city fo tho north of Twin Peaks lies a natural hollow Here It Is proposed to create an amphitheater or stadium of vast proportions Tho gin tier slopes of tho Twin Peaks will probably prob-ably be used as villa properties The plans for Twin Peaks also Include a collective center or academy which Is to be arranged for the accommodation of Intel of men In various branches lectual pursuits A little open air theater the-ater after the Greek model would form a part of this scheme Even Telegraph hill Is to have Its precipitate sides terraced and in to to be transformed Into a park according accord-Ing to the design of Mr Durnham To carry out all the plans of the architect archi-tect would bo a largo task Just now but the citizens of tho new San Francisco Fran-cisco expect that tho broad general lines will be laid down nnd then In the course of time the rest will be added |